Believe in God. Believe in the power of the gospel and the glorious ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. Put to death every inclination toward despair. Put to death every impulse toward fretful, anxious frustration. And fix your eyes upon what is ultimate and eternal: Christ Jesus, the Saviour of sinners and the Lord of the world. 

But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. Hebrews 10:12–13

What do we do as we live in this crazy world of ours? What do we do as we see our culture falling to pieces and insanity creeping up to a fever pitch? These are the questions of our time, and they are not unimportant.

The first thing we do is we remember that the root of cultural chaos is sin. It is not, fundamentally, the Left, or progressive ideology, or young, radicalized university students, or gender ideology, though these things may be the vehicle. Rather, we remember that the fundamental thing, the engine driving all of it, is sin and rebellion against God. Sin — our sin — is the root and cause of all the mayhem and insanity in our culture at the present moment.

This point is important to bear in mind, because it means that, secondly, we can find hope, strength, and comfort in the reality that Jesus Christ is a great Saviour….

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